The idea of mother tongue being the medium of education in our country

doesn’t resonate with me, because it is practically impossible to be executed in

India.
For unilingual countries like France, Russia, Germany, the states, Mother
tongue education has undoubtedly worked wonders, but for a nation like ours,
where every other state is a new country, with a different language and
hundreds of dialects it is not feasible to have mother tongue education.
For an instance, let us consider Maharashtra, the state we reside in. Marathi is
said to be the official language of Maharashtra, but do all the people living in
Maharashtra have marathi as their mother tongue?
Definitely no!
People in the western part speak varhadi, those in the east speak zadhiboli,
then there are thanjavur, Kasargod, and Bhavsar speaking people in the south
and Ahirani speaking in the northen parts.
Similar is the case for other states.
We live in a cosmopolitan india with a lot of intra country migration, where
people from all over the country move to different states and live unitedly in a
sync. This unity and harmony of the migrants will be completely crushed by the
mother tongue education policy.
People will be forced to stay and work in their own states only. And they will
feel alienated in different states
This would eventually, give rise to feelings of intolerance towards other
communities and states. Jingoistic politics will become prevalent. Mother
tongue education is decorative form to establish caste system and
discriminations in a modern form and on falsely justified grounds.
Another important point is that Mother tongue-based education promotes
the mother tongue at the cost of the bridge languages (in India it is Hindi
and English) that would enable the students to connect with the rest of the
world.
Unless the student study in a global language they are sure to put barriers to
their success and progress. These students will certainly lack a global vision
and all their knowledge, views and opinions will be confined to boundaries of
their states.
Exchange of knowledge will come to a standstill.
Also, there isn’t enough trained staff available to execute this mother
tongue-based education. To learn a language and to learn in a language are
two completely different things, likewise to teach a language and to teach in
a language are two different. There are certain laws and theories and
definitions which if translated to the vernacular languages, would lose their
meaning and the teachers might not be able to clarify it in the mother
tongues. There will certainly be many teachers who won’t be comfortable
in teaching certain subjects in mother tongues. Also, there are many
teachers who live in a state but belong to some different community and
have a different mother tongue, such teachers will face a huge setback in
their careers. The teachers and staff are not well furnished with the
vernacular languages since they have been teaching in either Hindi or
English.

Further, the language found in the books is far removed from the
colloquial language the child is exposed outside the school.
The difference is so vast, it may be a totally new language for the child. It is
like using old English for teaching.
I think instead of making the mother tongue a medium of instruction and
confusing the children, it can be retained as a language option so it serves the
purpose of culture.
Mother education has more disadvantages than advantages and it will leave no
stone unturned in curbing the child’s progress. This policy will be a political
statement rather than an educational reform.